amaranthine








adjective

  1. of or like the amaranth.
  2. unfading; everlasting: a woman of amaranthine loveliness.
  3. of purplish-red color.

adjective

  1. of a dark reddish-purple colour
  2. of or resembling the amaranth
adj.

1660s, “unfading, undying,” poetic (apparently coined by Milton), also amarantine; see amaranth. Later used of a purple color.

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